Didier Fassin, Michel Foucault, penseur de l’actualité, The Conversation, 15 octobre 2026 Michel Foucault est né il y a cent ans, le 15 octobre 1926. Il est l’auteur de sciences humaines et sociales le plus cité dans le monde. Son œuvre a ouvert des champs d’analyse inédits – invention de la prison, de la psychiatrie, …
Michael C. Behrent, The Foucault Century, Compact, 15 October 2015 Paywalled article Michel Foucault, by some counts the world’s most cited author, was born a hundred years ago today. Though he died forty-two years ago, the controversial philosopher’s image remains remarkably cutting-edge. Foucault’s signature concepts—power/knowledge, panopticism, biopower—still sound deliciously subversive. Though he died too soon …
Stefan Schulz, Der lange Sommer der Theorie und der Deutsche Herbst Zum 100. Geburtstag von Michel Foucault, Theater der Zeit, Oktober 2026 Article behind a paywall and also available in hard copy Im November 1977 wird der RAF-Anwalt Klaus Croissant überstürzt aus Frankreich an die BRD ausgeliefert. Eine Gruppe um Michel Foucault demonstriert vor dem …
Marc Escola, Un philosophe pour notre temps, Editos Actualités, Fabula, 19 Septembre 2026. Update on French language publications and events for the Foucault Centenary. See site for full text and links Le Collège de France lance les célébrations pour le centenaire de la naissance de Michel Foucault, avec un colloque consacré à “Michel Foucault au …
Michel Foucault, Apologie de René Clément, Positif, 784, Juin 2026. Please note the digital version is behind a subscription paywall. You can buy a hard copy of the issue here. For a great photo of Foucault and Verdeaux working together see Positif‘s instagram post. See also Stuart Elden’s additional comments about this letter on Progressive …
Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car, Literary Hub, 13 February 2026. Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization One day last summer, at my parents’ house on the east coast of Sweden, my dad says he wants to show me something. He pulls out a piece …
Foucault and Film (Part I) Monday, February 10, 2025 to Friday, February 14, 2025 Theme week organized by Jenny Gunn, Georgia State University Co-editor Sara Ghazi Asadollahi About MediaCommons Foucault’s ‘Cinematicity’ By Jenny Gunn, Monday, February 10, 2025 Curator’s Note “Foucault is uniquely akin to contemporary film.” -Gilles Deleuze[i] Despite Deleuze’s definitive claim in the …
David Langwallner, The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 3, Cassandra Voices, 12 September 2024 Extract […] Foucault makes very relevant contributions to Jurisprudence and the practice of law. First, the transplantation of Jeremy Bentham’s idea of the panopticon – the all-seeing surveillance prison such as Kilmainham in Dublin – is in Foucault’s view a …
“Theoretical Puppets” use puppets of Deleuze and Foucault to discuss social theory and philosophy Jennifer Sandlin, Boing Boing, May 10 2023. [Editor: See the Theoretical Puppets category on this blog for all the Foucault related episodes] If you’re a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—”Theoretical Puppets.” …
